Word: foldings
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While Harvard generates liberal thought, it also generates cold hard cash. Harvard’s endowment surpassed the billion-dollar mark in 1970 and has increased twenty-fold since. The University’s practice of aggressive and creative investment, though, has often garnered criticism from the liberal-leaning student body and faculty. Protests and divestment campaigns began in the 1960s when the University founded the Harvard Management Corporation and diversified its assets into stocks and property. The campaigns have ranged from a 20-year, public effort to force the University to divest unconditionally from companies with ties...
Isabelle, who said she was proud to work for Harvard, said her medical condition leaves her with neck pain and headaches and renders her unable to fold laundry, and said she isn’t sure what she will do next...
...direction they believe the country ought to be headed. We have spent far too long reacting to the radical changes proposed by the right; we have historically been the party of change and there is no reason why we cannot embrace this mantle. Bringing new ideas into the fold is not only possible, but necessary. The voters have rejected the party as it stands right now. Only by forcing them to take a good, hard look at a new Democratic Party can we once again become America’s trusted leaders...
...West’s solutions are three-fold, yet also largely theoretical. He urges America to affirm “the Socratic commitment to questioning,” a “prophetic commitment to justice,” and a belief in “tragicomic hope...
...especially the tagasode painting theme?literally "Whose sleeves are these?"?a 17th century meditation on an empty kimono. The original poem inspired numerous still-lifes of clothing and fashion accessories suggesting the essence of a beautiful but absent woman. One example in the exhibition, an anonymous 17th century six-fold screen depicting richly embroidered kimonos on a gold background, shimmers with Klimt-like sensuality...